Name: Sweeter Than True
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: Co-written with Stephen Butler.I wrote this melody and lyric to Steve's chord changes. I never understood where these words came from. Then I realized the song was about not understanding.

Sweeter Than True

from True Lovers of Adventure by Mary Lee Kortes

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Co-written with Stephen Butler.I wrote this melody and lyric to Steve's chord changes. I never understood where these words came from. Then I realized the song was about not understanding.

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SWEETER THAN TRUE (M. Kortes/S. Butler) Magda Lane Music (ASCAP)/ Clementunes (ASCAP)

Here I sit under the sky again
There’s a rainbow overhead
I reach for a piece or two
But nothing moves
The whole world is standing still
A snapshot with no time frame
No winds of change
No you

CHO:
Why is this happening
And where is spring
It’s nearly July
Would do anything
Cry or sing
To make time go by

I walk past places we used to play
Children at heart in hand
I recognize the view
I once thought everything had a point
A reason to be
But then
What was the point of you?

CHO:
And when I feel afraid
I serenade these pictures of you
In the summer shade
The lemonade
Was sweeter than true

CHO:
Why is this happening
And where is spring
It’s long over due
You feel anything
The song you sang was
Sweeter than True
When I feel afraid
I serenade these pictures of you
In the summer shade
The love we made
Was sweeter than true

credits

from True Lovers of Adventure, released April 23, 1999
Produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel

Mary Lee Kortes: lead and background vocals
Stephen Butler: guitar,
Andy York: guitar
Joe Chiofalo: accordion
Brad Albetta: bass
Graham Hawthorne: drums & percussion
George York: clarinet

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Mary Lee Kortes New York, New York

"Songs so meticulously crafted they sound completely natural". Jon Pareles, The New York Times
“Mary Lee Kortes's voice—the high mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde." David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"Mary Lee in concert... a feast for lovers of great songwriting that thrives in live performance for its wit, insight and glowing humanity." Billboard ... more

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